OK this is so cool! THank you so much for a great tute and not keeping it to yourself!!! I am so making make-up bags from my niece's this Christmas! They love the picture of their cousing (my avatar ) and I would love to get that one on a bag for each of them!!! YAY! THANKS!

OK so I have been doing some experimenting. Here are pictures of the results:

a - Rinsed in cold water immediately using no detergentb - Rinsed in cold water immediately using fabric softener as detergentc - Rinsed in hot water immediately using no detergentd - Rinsed in hot water immediately using fabric softener as detergente - Photoshopped first to add saturation of 50 then rinsed immediately in cold water using fabric softener as detergentf - Rinsed in cold water after 20 minutes using fabric softener as detergent (in my opinion, this was the best result)g - Photoshopped first to add saturation of 30 then rinsed after 20 minutes in cold water using fabric softener as detergenth - Photoshopped first to add brightness of 30 and contrast of 30 then rinsed after 20 minutes in cold water using fabric softener as detergenti - Photoshopped first to add brightness of 50 and contrast of 50 then rinsed after 20 minutes in cold water using fabric softener as detergent (I like the look of this one)j - Rinsed in cold water after 30 minutes using fabric softener as detergentk - Rinsed in cold water after 1 hour using fabric softener as detergentl - Rinsed in cold water after 2 hours using fabric softener as detergentm - Photograph printed on fabric but not rinsed (true picture colour)

The next picture shows a close up of a picture print gone wrong but I wanted to show what I did with the same photos. If you look at the print on the right (with the same two photos together), the photo to the very right I photoshopped by changing the colour balance by 50 to blue. It gives a truer colour to the original. I'm sure if this were tweaked right, would give the true colour to the picture on the left. For some reason, the blue in each case, seems to rinse out more than any other colour.

Here are some other pictures I did using a slightly different recipe. This recipe was (by weight):

I think letter i looks pretty good. Those bottom two labels look fantastic by the way! Maybe the alum powder made a difference? I was at the store a bit ago and was depressed to see they did not have the soda stuff. *sigh*

I think letter i looks pretty good. Those bottom two labels look fantastic by the way! Maybe the alum powder made a difference? I was at the store a bit ago and was depressed to see they did not have the soda stuff. *sigh*

When researching the recipe the most commonly used "mordant" ingredient was Alum. A mordant is basically what Bubble Jet Set is. A substance in which you pre-treat fabric to allow colours to set into the fabric.

Washing Soda some say is a mordant and some say it isn't but all agree that Alum is. I believe that Alum is fairly easily obtainable in the US in chemist/drug stores.

According to the link below, a substitute for washing soda is baking soda (bicarbonate of soda for those in Australia). I can try and tweak the recipe so that baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) is substituted for the washing soda. Will let you know.....